Playful Sparkle - Google Base for OpenCart 4

Playful Sparkle - Google Base extension for OpenCart 4.x+ enables seamless export of OpenCart product data to Google Merchant Center, ensuring that your products are accurately displayed on the Google Shopping platform. The extension includes key features such as multi-store and multi-language data feed output, the ability to exclude out-of-stock products, support for pre-tax prices, customizable tax definitions, and frontend authentication for secure access, all designed for effortless integration and efficient management.

Google Merchant Center is a comprehensive platform that allows businesses to upload their product data for display on Google Shopping, reaching a larger customer base. This extension allows OpenCart store owners to easily sync their product catalog with Google Merchant Center, ensuring that all relevant product details—such as pricing, availability, and tax information—are displayed correctly to potential customers. By utilizing Google Merchant Center, the extension improves marketing effectiveness, streamlines product visibility, and ensures a secure, reliable product feed management process across multiple stores and languages.

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Features

• Multi-store and multi-language data feed output: Support for multi-language product data feed output, ensuring consistency across different stores and languages.
• Exclude out-of-stock products: Only available products are included in the data feed, ensuring accurate listings.
• Pre-tax price support: Provide the option to display prices excluding tax.
• Customizable tax definitions: Define tax settings for selected countries, including region, tax rate, and shipping tax, ensuring compliance with global tax requirements.
• Frontend authentication: Secure access to the product feed by preventing unauthorized users from accessing sensitive data.
• Compatibility: Integrates smoothly with OpenCart 4.x+, supporting a range of online store setups.
• Multi-store Support: Supports multi-store setups by default, making it easy to integrate across multiple OpenCart stores.
• Multilingual Support: Ready for international use with languages including Čeština (cs-cz), Deutsch (de-de), English (GB) (en-gb), English (US) (en-us), Español (es-es), Français (fr-fr), Magyar (hu-hu), Italiano (it-it), Русский (ru-ru), Türkçe (tr-tr) (community contribution Furkan Başkak), and Slovenčina (sk-sk).

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Installation Instructions

1. Download the latest version from this repository.
2. Log in to your OpenCart admin panel.
3. Navigate to Extensions > Installer.
4. Click the Upload button and upload the ps_google_base.ocmod.zip file.
5. Locate the extension in the Installed Extensions list and click the Install button.
6. Navigate to Extensions > Extensions and select Feeds from the Choose the extension type dropdown list.
7. Locate the extension in the Feeds list and click the Install button.
8. Click the Edit button, configure the extension parameters, and click the Save button to save your settings.

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Support & Inquiries

For assistance or inquiries related to this extension, please open an issue on this repository or contact us via email at support@playfulsparkle.com.

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License

This project is distributed under the GPL-3.0 license. Please refer to the LICENSE file for further details.

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Contributing

We encourage contributions from the community. To contribute, please fork the repository and submit a pull request with your proposed changes.